Mayfly season starts early

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100608/METRO/6080361/1409/metro

Michigan DNRE allows for Mobile Fishing

http://www.freep.com/article/20100609/NEWS06/100609034/1008/NEWS06/Michigan-DNRE-allows-for-Mobile-Fish-ing

‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ in the Great Lakes?

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2010/0610_great_lakes_austin.aspx

Dangerous levels of E. coli found in waterways

https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#inbox

Baraga County celebrates lake trout

http://www.mininggazette.com/page/content.detail/id/510464.html?nav=5006

Great Lakes mayors seek review of disaster plans

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/96626819.html

The North Woods Native Plant Society is hosting a hike to the Pilgrim River in Houghton County on Saturday, June 26.  The public is invited to join us on a hike through a 1360-acre forest parcel proposed for protection as part of the Pilgrim River Watershed Project.   Meet at 9:30 AM eastern time, on Boundary Road (five miles south of Houghton), one-half mile east of the intersection with Superior Road.

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Williamston students release salmon into Red Cedar

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20105240346

Protests of Upper Peninsula mine project continue

http://www.wfrv.com/news/michigan/95535839.html

VHS No Longer Causing Huge Fish Die-Offs in Great Lakes

http://eponline.com/articles/2010/05/21/vhs-no-longer-causing-huge-fish-dieoffs-in-great-lakes.aspx

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What defines a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation?

http://greatlakesecho.org/2010/05/10/what-defines-a-concentrated-animal-feeding-operation/

Concentrated CAFOs: Big farms tend to cluster

http://greatlakesecho.org/2010/05/10/concentrated-cafos-big-farms-tend-to-cluster/

Michigan State University students clean up Red Cedar River

http://greatlakesecho.org/2010/05/13/michigan-state-university-students-clean-up-red-cedar-river/

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The Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE) and the Great Lakes Commission (GLC) are pleased to announce that seven organizations have been chosen to receive volunteer water quality monitoring grants (three full grants and four start-up grants) to be awarded under the Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps) Program.

The MiCorps Program was established by Governor Jennifer M. Granholm to involve and assist the state's volunteer water quality organizations with water quality assessments, protection, and stewardship of Michigan's lakes and rivers. These volunteer dependent monitoring groups further expand the existing network of committed citizens who are working hard to monitor water quality in Michigan.

The seven organizations sharing nearly $50,000 in grant funds to support their volunteer monitoring work beginning in 2010 are:

Full Grants:

• Michigan Trout Unlimited - $17,562 to monitor 14 sites in the Kalamazoo, Rogue, Au Sable, and Pilgrim Rivers watersheds.

• Branch County Conservation District - $15,403.81 to monitor 10 sites in the Hodunk-Messenger Chain of Lakes watershed, a subwatershed to the Coldwater River.

• Flint River Watershed Coalition - $10,111.55 to expand their current monitoring program in the Flint River watershed to include new monitoring sites.

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